| ??? 09/26/10 23:34 Modified: 09/26/10 23:35 Read: times |
#178732 - You may find it easier to roll-yer-own Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Microsoft has essentially destroyed the notion of safe backup for most of us. They've made every device attached to the computer, aside from serial ports, look like a file device, so whatever is attached to a computer is infected with any and all evils that reside on that computer within 100 ms.
The "old" and very reliable backup systems used proprietary software to "talk" to the storage device, e.g. SCSI or IDE or FD-cable tape drive, so that a virus that was unaware of that particular device's driver, associated only with and internal to the backup software, had no way of doiong anything to the media. If you simply write an app that talks from a PC USB port to your MCU, and the MCU talks to the storage device, be it flash media, tape, or disk, the backup will then be a simple copy with ECC process, and will be as good as any virus-accessible means available today ... PLUS it will be virus-impenetrable. RE |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| tape backup replacement | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You may find it easier to roll-yer-own | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Rubbish | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Can you give an example ... just one? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Still not backing borked original claim with any facts | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Where's your example? All you have to do is name it ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| HP Ultrium | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Where is the example Richard? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I haven't found anyone who knows that product | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Still missing examples, and "tiny unknown" biggest on market | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Talk to the Device MFG's | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Before spying... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| documentation | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Don't despair! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Old Computer... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Something must be valuable | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's meant to be.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| more info | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Probably easy to take care of the CRC | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So value is in system | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Still much we don't know about this project | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Delays | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Take care | 01/01/70 00:00 |